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World History Midterm Exam
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. A theocracy is a government in which
a. leaders rule by divine authority.
b. a council of elders makes all the laws.
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c. only women could rule.
d. the military ruled the people.
How many years have passed when a sample is on its 7th carbon 14 half-life?
a. 40,110
c. 7,000
b. 28,650
d. 7
How many years after dying does a sample lose one-half of its carbon 14 atoms?
a. 22,920
c. 11,460
b. 40,110
d. 5,730
4. The use of fire by early humans reminds us that
a. they ate only food cooked on a fire.
b. they were fascinated by fire.
c. sometimes they adapted by changing the environment, not themselves.
d. they were cold all the time.
5. The government of Athens after Cleisthenes became
a. the foundation for Athenian democracy.
c. an early advocate of communism.
b. a tyranny of men with new wealth.
d. chaotic and disorganized.
6. The Neolithic Revolution can best be described as
a. a political conflict between the Neolithic and Paleolithic peoples.
b. the result of the youth taking control of the tribes.
c. the use of fire by early humans to change their environment.
d. the growing of crops and the taming of food-producing animals by early humans.
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7. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were
a. statues of the gods.
c. epic poems.
b. immense paintings.
d. two immense ships.
8. Which leader of the Persian Empire extended it to become the largest empire the world had yet seen?
a. Marc Antony
c. Nebuchadnezzar
b. Darius
d. Moses
9. The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was
a. controlled by a popular vote.
c. ruled by a tyrant.
b. ruled by a king.
d. ruled by the few.
10. The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant humans
a. had less control over their environment.
b. could use animals as pets.
c. could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities.
d. could use fire to cook their food.
11. What is the Preamble of the Constitution?
a. all of the above
c. it is the introduction of the Constitution
b. it is the references of the Constitution
d. it is an amendment that states what the
Presidential duties are
Tool
spear, bow and arrow
bone harpoon and fishhook
bone needles
sharp-edged tools
scraping tools
Effect
made hunting easier
increased the catch of fish
made it possible to make nets and
baskets and to sew hides together for
clothing
made it easier to cut and dig
made it easier to clean animal hides
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Which tool(s) might indicate that a society wore clothing?
a. fishhook
c. spear, bow and arrow
b. bone needles
d. All of the above
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Which tools might indicate that a society hunted animals?
a. spear, bow and arrow
c. scraping tools
b. sharp-edged tools
d. All of the above
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Which tools would be useful for catching fish?
a. bone harpoon and fishhook
c. bow and arrow
b. bone needles
d. Both A and B
____ 15. Hieratic script, a simplified version of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, was used
a. by the blind, as a type of braille.
b. for business transactions, record keeping, and the general needs of daily life.
c. only by the nobles, as a way of communicating with the gods.
d. by peasants, who were too uneducated to read.
Dating Artifacts and Fossils
Radiocarbon Dating
Thermoluminescence Dating
Scientists measure the amount of carbon Scientists measure the amount of light
14 atoms still in an object to determine its given off by electrons trapped in the soil
age
surrounding an object to determine its
age
Accurate to around 50,000 years ago
Accurate to around 200,000 years ago
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According to the chart, which method of dating artifacts and fossils measures an aspect of the object
itself to determine its age?
a. radiocarbon dating
c. Both A and B
b. thermoluminescence dating
d. None of the above
According to the chart, which method of dating artifacts and fossils can only accurately date objects
that are 50,000 years or less?
a. thermoluminescence dating
c. Both A and B
b. radiocarbon dating
d. None of the above
____ 18. Who discovered the bones of the earliest known human at Olduvai Gorge?
a. Henry Jones, Jr.
c. Louis B. and Mary Leakey
b. Donald Johanson
d. Cecil B. DeMille
____ 19. The use of metals marked the end of the Neolithic Age and a
a. new level of human control over the environment and its resources.
b. beginning to the Metal Age.
c. movement away from agriculture.
d. complete abandonment of other tools.
____ 20. Who were the first humans to learn to deliberately make fires?
a. Homo erectus
c. the Neolithic peoples
b. cave people
d. Canadians
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According to the time line, how long after Phillip II came to power did Macedonia crush the Greeks?
a. 1 year
c. 31 years
b. 21 years
d. None of the above
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How long after the dark age of Greece ended did classical Greece flourish?
a. 200 years
c. 250 years
b. 50 years
d. None of the above
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If Alexander the Great was born in 355 B.C., how old was he when he died?
a. 23 years old
c. 87 years old
b. 32 years old
d. 78 years old
____ is considered by many historians today to be the greatest historian of the ancient world.
a. Thucydides
c. Euripides
b. Plato
d. Aristotle
The Zhou dynasty claimed it ruled China because
a. Zhou ancestors had chosen it.
c. it had the Mandate of Heaven.
b. the Mongols feared it.
d. it had an army of artists.
A culture is based on a set of beliefs, knowledge, and a(n)
a. type of food production.
c. ability to write.
b. creation of art.
d. pattern of living.
____ is the period before writing was developed
a. Ancient times
c. The Neolithic Age
b. Archaeology
d. Prehistory
The first empire in world history was the ____ Empire.
a. Akkadian
c. British
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b. Sumerian
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d. Eskimo
Which numbering system most closely resembled the Egyptian system?
a. Ancient Chinese
c. Babylonian
b. Roman
d. Greek
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Which three number systems on the chart most closely resemble one another?
a. Greek, Roman, Mayan
c. Ancient Chinese, Mayan, Hindu
b. Hindu, Arabic, Modern Arabic
d. Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek
____ 31. All human beings today belong to the ____ subspecies of human being.
a. Homo sapiens sapiens
c. australopithecines
b. ordinary
d. Neanderthal
Greek Colonization: Cause and Effect
A. Increased trade/wealth
B. Colonization
C. Spread of culture
D. Lack of farmland
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What would be the correct sequence for the cause-and-effect chart?
a. D, A, C, B
c. A, B, C, D
b. B, D, A, C
d. D, B, C, A
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Who was the Greek Goddess of Love?
a. Apollo
b. Athena
c. Zeus
d. Aphrodite
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Which god or goddess on the chart do you think was special to the artisans and philosophers of Athens?
a. Aphrodite
c. Athena
b. Zeus
d. Poseidon
____ 35. Paleolithic peoples were nomads because they had no choice but to
a. flee from the wooly mammoth.
b. move on after they had depleted the land.
c. follow animal migrations and vegetation cycles.
d. escape the pollution they caused.
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According to the time line, ____ was in power in China when the Buddha was born in what is
present-day Nepal.
a. Qin dynasty
c. Shang dynasty
b. Han dynasty
d. Zhou dynasty
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According to the chart, on what is the Chinese system of numbering based?
a. units of 10
c. powers of 10
b. numbers 0 through 9
d. All of the above
____ 38.
Which Arabic number requires more characters when written in Chinese?
a. 456
c. 20
b. 200
d. 3,000
____ 39. The Assyrians were especially known for
a. establishing a monotheistic religion.
b. committing atrocities on their captives.
c. being wide-ranging pastoral nomads.
d. being kind to animals.
____ 40. Thermoluminescence dating determines an object’s age by
a. analyzing leather.
c. looking at a calendar.
b. measuring electrons in soil.
d. detecting levels of C-14.
Australopithecines
3 to 4 million years ago
Eastern and southern Africa
Walked upright
Used stone tools
Australopitecines
Neanderthals
Between 100,000 and 30,000 B.C.
Europe and southwest Asia
Walked upright
Used stone tools
Buried their dead
Neanderthals
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Use the table to answer the following question. Where would you put “buried their dead” on the Venn
diagram?
a. in the center
c. under Neanderthals only
b. under Australopithecines only
d. None of the above
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Based on the information in the table, which of the following facts does not belong in the center section
of the Venn diagram?
a. lived 3–4 million years ago
c. walked upright
b. used stone tools
d. All of the above
The Paleolithic Age is
a. usually known as the Primitive Age.
b. also called the New Stone Age.
c. the period in which humans used simple stone tools.
d. not proven to have existed.
Food surpluses in the Neolithic farming village of Çatal Hüyük
a. made it possible for people to do things other than farming.
b. caused the entire population to become obese.
c. made the village susceptible to raids from nomadic tribes.
d. were not stored properly and spoiled, so people starved to death.
Neanderthals were different from hominids because they
a. buried their dead.
c. used bronze tools.
b. cooked with fire.
d. wore animal skins.
Hammurabi is remembered for
a. inventing the first wooden bicycle.
c. overthrowing the Akkadian Empire.
b. his law code, a collection of 282 laws.
d. creating a post office.
Who were the Aryans?
a. founders of Buddhism
b. the first religious leaders of India
c. Indo-European nomadic peoples who created a new Indian society
d. the distant relatives of the Harrappans
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Hinduism
karma
dharma
yoga
many gods
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Both
A single force
governs universe
Reincarnation
Humans can merge
with universal
force.
Buddhism
Four Noble Truths
Eightfold Path
All people can
achieve Nirvana.
Which is not an aspect of Hinduism?
a. reincarnation
b. karma
c. yoga
d. nirvana
According to the Venn diagram, which religion claims that a single force governs the universe?
a. Buddhism
c. Both A and B
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b. Hinduism
d. None of the above
The conquests of Alexander the Great created the
a. Hellenistic Era, an age that saw the expansion of the Greek language and Greek ideas to
the non-Greek world.
b. Dark Ages, a time of great sadness for the Greek people.
c. Age of Lawlessness, a period of extreme cruelty and anarchy.
d. Macedonian Age, a period of advancement in art.
By 750 B.C., the ____, or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.
a. agora
c. polis
b. hoplite
d. pantheon
The Neolithic Age is sometimes
a. debated as the greatest age the world has ever known.
b. questioned because of the lack of evidence to show its existence.
c. mislabeled as the Rock of Ages.
d. called the New Stone Age.
The invention of cuneiform is credited to
a. the Spanish.
c. the Sumerians.
b. Odysseus.
d. the Phoenicians.
Anthropology is the study of
a. ancient texts.
c. the light given off by electrons.
b. past societies.
d. human life and culture.
India’s ____ was created by the Aryans.
a. music
c. caste system
b. sewer system
d. educational system
Archaeologists learn about ancient people by studying
a. skeletons.
c. footprints.
b. artifacts.
d. relics.
What is the importance of the Phoenician alphabet?
a. had capital letters
c. could be read backwards
b. first alphabet to use words
d. basis for English alphabet
The first Han emperor discarded
a. Legalism and adopted Confucianism
c. communism for socialism.
b. Daoism and adopted Legalism.
d. all religion.
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Which is not a similarity between Egypt and Mesopotamia?
a. had farming and trade economy
c. located along river(s)
b. used hieroglyphics as written language
d. developed polytheistic religion
One element of the Confucian view of the Dao is
a. that selfishness is a virtue.
b. that a strong police force is needed to maintain order and stability.
c. the idea that humans are evil by nature, and can only be brought to the right path by harsh
laws and stiff punishments.
d. the idea of humanity, consisting of a sense of compassion and empathy for others.
Legalism stated that people were
a. naturally virtuous.
c. natural leaders.
b. always the enemies of the state.
d. selfish and untrustworthy.
Historians have identified the basic characteristics of civilizations as
a. vehicles, use of fire, nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering, and technology.
b. villages, temples, trade, tools, use of fire, and armies.
c. cities, governments, religion, social structure, writing, and art.
d. use of metals, weapons, houses, food, religion, and art.
The term “Homo erectus” means what?
a. “tall humans”
c. “old stone”
b. “upright human being”
d. “wise, wise human being”
The six characteristics of civilizations are cities, governments, ____, social structure, writing, and art.
a. religion
c. use of fire
b. pets
d. calligraphy
Tyranny
Democracy
Oligarchy
Government of Greek City-States
Advantage
Disadvantage
ended the rule of
went against the rule of
aristocrats
law
places power in the hands can be difficult to reach
of the most people
a consensus
relatively efficient
power in the hands of a
few people
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According to the chart, which form of government is controlled by only a few people?
a. democracy
c. tyranny
b. oligarchy
d. Both A and B
____ 66. The real change in the Neolithic Revolution was the
a. development of bowls and spoons.
b. shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture.
c. movement away from eating just fruits and grains to eating meat.
d. discovery of new caves.
True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
____ 67. Women in ancient societies were responsible for much of the farm work because they invented the plow.
____ 68. The first woman to become pharaoh of Egypt was Cleopatra.
____ 69. Hammurabi based his rule on a system of strict justice.
____ 70. The Sumerians invented the wagon wheel and several other tools and productive devices that made life easier.
____ 71. The Stone Age began with the development of stone tools.
____ 72. The Nile River is the longest river in the world.
____ 73. Artifacts include human remains, such as skeletons.
____ 74. The United States President needs to be a US resident for at least 12 years.
____ 75. Confucius taught that a virtuous leader would create a virtuous people.
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